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Ogene, the gong pierces the hollow night in feverish echoes of the solemn news!
Ala, the earth wearily opens to swallow this huge feast of a people’s hymnal hunger.
Chinualumogu! We still see...
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Up to the moment he breathed his last on Thursday, March 21, 2013, Chinua Achebe, Africa’s most quoted raconteur, novelist , essayist and social critic, did not know he was the person who...
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I read with pity, a poorly written piece by one Sufuyan Ojeifo on NewsDairyOnline (newsdiaryonline.com/marks-house-of-indolence-a-thesis-redolent-of-dishonesty-by-sufuyan-ojeifo/) and an edited...
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Let me begin this piece with a story. Inno is a Nigerian in his early thirties, a graduate of Geography who has been searching from coast to coast for a job since he graduated in 2007. After...
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I encountered Chinua Achebe as a teenager growing up in Benin City in the then Bendel State. It was a meeting that changed my perception of life. It was an immersion and learning experience into the...
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Lately, there has been so many “elderly rascality” taking place in Nigeria. From Gabriel Igbinedion’s complete disregard for the law of the land on election-day in Edo State to the...
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When Chinua Achebe was returning to Nigeria for the first time in 2001 since he had a car accident in 1990, I advised the then governor of Anambra State, Chinwoke Mbadinuju, to name a very...
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The proclamation of emergency rule on three states of the North-East by a resurgent President Goodluck Jonathan was given the blessing of the National Assembly, as legislators of opposition parties...
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Last week, President Goodluck Jonathan finally, pursuant to the powers conferred on him by the Constitution, imposed emergency rules in the already heavily militarised North-East states of Borno,...
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There has been so much hue and cry over the so called Baga massacre, a community in Borno state where the Joint Task Force (JTF) of the infamous Nigerian army massacred over 180 innocent people...
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The current face-off between the students of the state-owned Olabisi Onabanjo University and the Senator Ibikunle Amosun-led Ogun state government over the payment of the back-log of school fees owed...
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Since time immemorial, people have been known to die for all kinds of causes – some religious, political, personal, emotional, social, economical etc. As far as I know, only Jesus died for the...
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